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Vol. XX -Mo. 10
Power Spraying Outfit. In use on F. Walden's Fruit Farm, Yakima County, Wash. See Page 8.
PEARL MILLET.
Washington, D. C, May 7, 1903.
Editor The Ranch: Permit me to
call the attention of your readers to
a farmers' bulletin just issued by the
Department of Agriculture on "Pearl
Millet." This bulletin was prepared
in the office of the agrostologist, and
gives the results of experiments with
this crop during the past few years.
The special reason for its prepara
tion at the present time lies in the
fact that seed of this crop has been
extensively sold unOer the names,
"Pencillaria" and Mand's Wonder
Forage Plant," at a great advance in
price. The bulletin gives an account
of the origin and history of the crop
as well as of its cultivation and until
ization. Any one who is interested
can secure a copy of the same by ad
dressing the Division of Publications,
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
W. J. SPILLMAN, Agrostologist.
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
The first Young People's Farmers
Institute in Illinois and probably the
first in the United States, was held
last wevjk at Woodstock 1, M'cHenry
<ounty, and its developments are of
unusual interest. Here was attempted
the problem of bringing the young
men and the young women into al!
kinds of institute work —planning and
preparing for the meeting, serving on
all committees, being largely repre
sonted on the program, the whole pro
gram being made expressly for the
young pople, and they being the sole
A JOURNAL OF THE LAND AND THE HOME IN THE NEW WEST.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MAY 15, 1903.
exhibitors.
The audience was chiefly made up of
young people, several of whom had put
much earnest work into this institute,
and felt a corresponding interest. At
least four good papers on the general
program were prepared and given by
young people, besides the prize essay
by boys and girls which were read at
two different sessions. Some very ex
cellent things were said, and said in
an attractive way.—Farmers' Call.
It is high time that newspapers look
elsewhere than to farmers for subjects
for jests and cartoons. In this coun
try there are upwards of 6,000,000 of
farmers who own their own land, their
horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, and the
aggregate of their wealth is greater
than the combined riches of the Steel
Trust, the Standard Oil Company and
of all the railroads of the United
States. They live comfortably and
they enjoy life. Place them side by
side with city people and they will
compare most favorably with them in
intelligence and in education. They
are sensible and conservative. They
believe in law and order. They select
good men as candidates for office and
usually elect such. All of their in
fluence is cast for what is best in
manhood, and they are intensely pa
triotic. As a class, they are just, up
right and honest. Newspapers which
hold them up to ridicule do but belittle
themselves when they do it. Farmers
are readers of newspapers, and above
any other class are educated to rely
upon advertisements to tell them
where to go and buy goods. —National
Advertiser.
IN AND OUT OF THE HOG BUSI-
NESS.
The way some people go into the
hog business reminds one of the way
bees have of starting out on a search
for honey. They fly around and
around, wabbling and turning, and
finally strike out in a straight line,
and keep going until their going
amounts to something.
Every time pork prices go up, as
they are at the present time, thou
sands at once plunge into the hog
business, only to go out of it the mo
ment live hogs touch 3 or 4 cents, or
the spring proves a hard one on pigs,
or cholera, or some other trouble,
thins out the herd. They do this per
haps two or three times, and then —
finding their farm is adapted to pork
growing, that one year with another,
if thoroughly understood, it is one of
the best paying things on the farm,
they^ settle down to growing and turn
ing off about so many hogs a year,
according to the size of their farms,
ihe love they have for the business,
or the amount of other stock they
keep.
We will say one thing, that we have
yet to know the man whose farm was
at all adapted to the business, and
who made it a study to grow his pork
in the most economical way, who, if
he stuck to it long enough, did not
Subscription SI P»r Year
Worth Two Gold Dollars
make money growing hogs and a pret
good lot of it.
GO A LITTLE SLOW.
Pork and mutton have soared side
by side this year, while finished beef
seems to have- run off on a lower
tangent all its own. This has been
very discouraging for the beef man
and many who have made little money
or lost more feeding steers, are scour
ing the country for a few brood sows
or a lot of pigs, with which to em
bark in the hog business. Hogs have
been paying so well, however, that
they are hard to get, and good prices
are often demanded for very poor
stuff. The buyer should be more care
ful than usual therefore, but for the
very reasons given, he is apt to be
less so. Good hogs are scarce and
high, but we believe there are enough
to go around, and if the cost will
make us more careful with what we
do get, the extra money will be well
spent. The scarcity may also prevent
beginners from going in too heavy and
indirectly insure their staying in long
er than they would if good stock were
more plentiful.
It is so much better to grow into
any business than to go into it, it is
perhaps well that all who would rush
into hogs on a large scale are un
able to do so. A half dozen good
brood sows properly cared for and
bred, hold greater possibilities than
four times that number poorly man
aged and poorer bred.